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Furnish

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fur⋅nish

  [fur-nish]
Use Furnish in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
2. to provide or supply (often fol. by with): The delay furnished me with the time I needed.
–noun
3. paper pulp and any ingredients added to it prior to its introduction into a papermaking machine.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME furnisshen < OF furniss-, long s. of furnir to accomplish, furnish < Gmc; cf. OHG frumjan to provide

Related forms:
fur⋅nish⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1, 2. rig, outfit, deck out. Furnish, appoint, equip all refer to providing something necessary. Furnish emphasizes the idea of providing necessary or customary services or appliances in living quarters: to furnish board; a room meagerly furnished with a bed, desk, and a wooden chair. Appoint (now found only in well-appointed) means to furnish completely with all requisites or accessories or in an elegant style: a well-appointed house. Equip means to supply with necessary materials or apparatus for some service, action, or undertaking; it emphasizes preparation: to equip a vessel, a soldier.
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fur·nish   (fûr'nĭsh)   
tr.v.   fur·nished, fur·nish·ing, fur·nish·es

  1. To equip with what is needed, especially to provide furniture for.

  2. To supply; give: "The story of Orpheus has furnished Pope with an illustration" (Thomas Bulfinch).


[Middle English furnisshen, from Old French fournir, fourniss-, of Germanic origin; see per1 in Indo-European roots.]
fur'nish·er n.
Synonyms: These verbs mean to provide with what is necessary for an activity or a purpose: furnished the team with new uniforms; equip a car with snow tires; had to outfit the children for summer camp; a library that was appointed in leather; knights who were accoutered for battle.
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Word Origin & History

furnish 
1442, from M.Fr. furniss-, prp. stem of furnir "furnish, accomplish," from O.Fr., from V.L. *fornire, alteration of *fromire, from W.Gmc. *frumjan "forward movement, advancement" (cf. O.H.G. frumjan "to do, execute, provide"), from P.Gmc. *fram- "forwards" (see from).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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